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Technology Stocks : InfoSpace (INSP): Where GNET went!
INSP 85.79+5.0%1:33 PM EST
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To: brk who wrote (15098)12/18/1999 6:44:00 PM
From: MJ  Read Replies (3) of 28311
 
brk

You are right the last real bear market was in the early 70's. I was a young Over-The-Counter Stock Representative with a fledgling 20 accounts.

I got most of my people out---but decided to hold my own stocks. Some of those stocks took 10 to 15 years to recover. While others provided major buying opportunities.
My only regret is that I didn't have another $10,000.00 to invest at that time when everything became a bargain at 2 to 5 dollars a share.

Also, at that time if we had a 12 million share day we thought we were something. As we get a little older, and I am not ancient yet, we forget these experiences until something queakes us. Your note did that.

I've always valued being a part of history in the making---i.e. being in the stockbrokerage office and seeing the crash come across the ticker tape---no internet---and getting a crick in my neck from looking up at the tape---as a novice I got the front row---the real experienced tape readers got the back rows and knew how to trade rapidly.

Also, it was vastly educational. I became a seasoned investor rapidly---with a wonderful opportunity to learn technical and fundamental analysis. Am no longer a rep. but obviously use that experience.

The market crash started the next chapter of my life which will go unwritten but has been fascinating.

mj

(Not mj for Mark Johnson of SI---but value his incite.)
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